Gladstone
Peter J Jagger (ed.)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister and an MP for sixty-three years, was one of the greatest British statesmen. He was remarkable both for his political impact on Victorian England and for his complex personality. His astonishing energy and command of detail was matched by exceptionally wide reading (it is possible to list over 20,000 books he read) and by his active involvement in many different areas of life, in and out of politics. These essays by leading historians, published in the centenary of his death, demonstrate the many different facets to this extraordinary and idiosyncratic man.

Glynne Wickham Gladstone, Oratory and the Theatre
Asa Briggs Victorian Images of Gladstone
Robert Blake Gladstone and Disraeli
Simon Peaple and John Vincent Gladstone and the Working Man
Peter J. Parish Gladstone and America
D. George Boyce Gladstone and Ireland
Kenneth O. Morgan Gladstone, Wales and the New Radicalism
Derek Beales Gladstone and Garibaldi
David Bebbington Gladstone and Grote
Michael Wheeler Gladstone and Ruskin
John Prest Gladstone and the Railways
H.C.G. Matthew Gladstone, Rhetoric and Politics
Peter J. Jagger Gladstone and his Library
 

256 pages July 1998
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